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DescriptionLake bonneville map.svg	English: Pleistocene epoch map showing the extent of the Lake Bonneville Flood and Pleistocene lakes in northwestern United States around 14.5000 radiocarbon years (~17,500 calendar years) before present. Ice Sheet Pleistocene Lake Present day Lake Direction of flood
Date	10 March 2013, 01:13:46
Source	Own work. Based on this map by Laura DeGrey, Myles Miller and Paul Link of Idaho State University, Dept. of Geosciences. Inset North America map from File:America-blank-map-01.svg Lakes in Western Great Basin sourced from USGS, Extent of Pleistocene Lakes in the Western Great Basin by Marith Reheis, 1999. Further sourced from SERC, Carleton College, Reheis and Bright, 2009. Coastline based on The Pacific Northwest Coast: Living With the Shores of Washington and Oregon, Paul D. Komar and USGS map. W3C-validity not checked.
Author	Fallschirmjäger

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	22:29, 11 September 2014	663 × 570 (352 KB)	Liandrei	Fixed alignment
	22:27, 11 September 2014	663 × 570 (352 KB)	Liandrei	Removed ambiguous arrows from Lake Missoula and those pointing from the Sacramento River to Lake Lahontan per POTD/2014-09-15 discussion.
	11:12, 21 April 2013	663 × 570 (352 KB)	Liandrei	Fixed Mexico
	11:04, 21 April 2013	666 × 570 (320 KB)	Liandrei	Widened and moved boxes to left
	22:52, 20 March 2013	650 × 570 (395 KB)	Liandrei	tiny tweak
	01:27, 20 March 2013	650 × 570 (395 KB)	Liandrei	tweaks
	01:21, 13 March 2013	650 × 570 (521 KB)	Liandrei	forgot to remove error from inkscape again...
	01:19, 13 March 2013	650 × 570 (521 KB)	Liandrei	tweakage
	01:09, 13 March 2013	650 × 570 (521 KB)	Liandrei	Added coastline & made valid svg
	05:01, 12 March 2013	650 × 570 (396 KB)	Orionist	Fixed errors to validate SVG, removed white rectangles and cropped extraneous parts of the maps, reduced file size, and did some other cosmetic changes.